Her peculiar experiences had sharpened her reasoning faculties and made her keenly observant of what passed before her, and had also given her an unusually acute perception of the meanings and influences floating in the atmosphere about her from other people's thoughts and words.

Child as she was, she was able to take, for a moment, Mrs.Enderby's view of her own position, and admitted that the kind yet cold lady had acted justly in depriving her of useless things.

Yet her wilful heart longed for the prettinesses that she loved, and she wept herself to sleep grieving for their loss, and for the greater loss which it typified.
The next morning her head was aching and her eyes redder than ever when she appeared in the school-room, and she seemed more sullen and less meek than she had been yesterday.

She could not fix her mind on the lesson Miss Davis gave her to learn, and made a great display of her ignorance when questioned on general subjects.

All this was not improving to her spirits, and in becoming more unhappy she grew more irritable.